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Venus Williams

Venus Williams

Date of birth: 17 June 1980
Birthplace: Lynwood, California, USA
Professional career started: 31 October 1994
Career singles titles 37 (up to 10 July 2008)
Total career prize money: over $20 million

Venus Williams has won 7 Grand Slam singles titles in her career.
Wimbledon 5 times.
US Open 2 times.

Head to head

Venus Williams vs. Steffi Graf 2 - 3
Venus Williams vs. Monica Seles 9 - 1
Venus Williams vs. Jennifer Capriati 4 - 0
Venus Williams vs. Anna Kournikova 8 - 0
Venus Williams vs. Martina Hingis 10 - 11
Venus Williams vs. Serena Williams 8 - 8
Venus Williams vs. Justine Henin 7 - 2
Venus Williams vs. Maria sharapova 2 - 3
Venus Williams vs. Ana Ivanovic 4 - 1

Venus was number one in the world for total of 11 weeks in 3 spells, two of 4 weeks and one of 3 weeks.

Venus Williams hit the fastest recorded serve in a women's tour main-draw match, reaching 128 mph at the French Open 2007. Although Brenda Schultz-McCarthy hit a serve at 130 mph during qualifying for the Cincinnati tournament in 2006 and the WTA said it considers that to be the fastest serve in women's tennis history.

Venus Williams Career Highlights

1997 Venus Williams becomes the first woman since Pam Shriver in 1978 to reach the US Open final on debut and the first unseeded female US Open finalist since 1958. She lost to Martina Hingis 6-0 6-4.

1998 Venus won he first tour singles title at Oklahoma City in February beating Joannette Kruger 6-3 6-2.

1998 Venus Williams with Justin Gimelstob won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open beating Cyril Suk and Helena Sukova 6-2 6-1 and the French Open beating Luis Lobo and Serena Williams 6-4 6-4.

1999 Venus and Serena teamed up to win the doubles titles at the French Open beating Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova 6-3 6-7 8-6. and the US Open beating Chanda Rubin and Sandrine Testud 4-6 6-1 6-4, becoming the first sister team to win a Grand Slam doubles title in the 20th century.

2000 Venus won her first Wimbledon title beating Lindsay Davenport 6-3 7-6 (7-3) and went on to win the US Open again beating Lindsay Davenport 6-4 7-5. Venus and Serena also won the doubles title beating Julie Halard and Ai Sugiyama 6-3 6-2.

2000 Venus Williams won the Olympic gold medal in Sydney beating Elena Dementieva 6-2 6-4.

2001 Venus won Wimbledon beating Justine Henin 6-1 3-6 6-0 and repeated her feat of the previous year winning the US Open this time beating her sister Serena Williams 6-2 6-4.

2002 Venus Williams became number one in the world on the 25th February.

2002 Venus and Serena won the Wimbledon doubles title beating Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suarez 6-2 7-5.

2003 Venus and Serena won the Australian Open doubles title beating Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suarez 4-6 6-4 6-3.

2005 Venus won Wimbledon beating Lindsay Davenport 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 9-7.

2007 Venus won Wimbledon beating Marion Bartoli 6-4 6-1.

2008 Venus Williams again won Wimbledon beating her sister Serena Williams 7-5 6-4 in the final.

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